of words. welcome in from atlanta. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." u.s. president joe biden and vice president kamala harris traveled here to the grieving city of atlanta on friday to honor the eight people killed in the shooting at local spas earlier this week. and while the president and vice president made time to visit the centers for disease control, which is headquartered in atlanta, they also met with local asian-american leaders worried about increasing violence against their community s during his remarks forcefully condemning the bigotry. >> too many asian-americans have been walking up and down the streets worrying. they've been attacked, scapegoated, harassed, assaulted, verbally assaulted, visibly assaulted. hate has no harbor in america. it must stop. >> initially the atlanta trip was perceived as part information stop and victory stop to celebrate president biden's massive covid relief bill, but after tuesday that focus was scrapped. cnn's jeff zeleny has more. >> reporter: president biden and vice president harris came to atlanta on friday to listen to the voices of asian-american community leaders who were voicing their concern in the wake of shootings here earlier this week that killed eight people, including six women of asian descent. the meeting lasted more than an hour. after that president biden acknowledged the rise in violence toward asian-amerasian-american over the course of the last year over the pandemic. he had this message for americans. >> hate and violence is often hidden in plain sight. it's often been met with silence. that's been all throughout our history. that has to change because our silence is complicity. we cannot be complcomplicit. we have to speak out. we have to act. >> reporter: for about an hour the president and vb did meet with asian-american community leaders including stephanie cho who i caught up with after the meeting. she said president biden's name came up again and again for his contributions regarding the violence during the pandemic. >> i'd like to see it beyond this moment, and as much as the former president called it the china virus, scapegoated asian-americans, and really fueled this racism around asian-americans, i'd like to see the biden administration come out just as strongly, but in support of asian-americans. >> reporter: cho said she was heartened by president biden and vice president harris to come here to shine a light on this sly violence, but she said she will be watching. she hopes president biden speaks out forcefully against the violence in the weeks and months to come. this was to be a stop on their "help is here" tour, promoted the rescue plan. it helped deliver the victory for president biden and vice president harris but it also sent the senate majority in democratic hands that led to the passage of the american rescue plan. the white house continues to promote that in the weeks ahead. jeff zeleny, cnn, atlanta. meanwhile federal officials and authorities across atlanta are still investigating the shooting, and more information is emerging about the lives cut short. amara walker has that. >> reporter: while authorities say they are still investigating to determine whether the spa shootings in the atlanta area were racially motivated, fbi director christopher wray told npr on thursday he doesn't believe race played a role. >> and while the motive remains still under investigation, at the moment it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated, but i really would defer to the state and local investigation on that for now. >> reporter: the fbi is currently playing a limited role in the investigation into the killing spree. director wray's comments up set leaders in the asian-american community. >> it's infuriated. everyone smells that it's a hate crime. >> i'm going to point out two things. in the state of georgia, 4% of the population is asian-american. however, of the victims of this crime, 75% of them were asian-american. >> reporter: cnn learned more about the violence that took place on thursday. 74-year-old soon si park. 69-year-old suncha kim, 51-year-old hyun jung grant. her son wrote -- in cherokee county, the victims have been identified as xiaojie tan, 49. her family said she was loving and unselfish. they would call each other family. daoyou feng, 44, paul andre michels, 54, and delaina ashley yaun, 33. her mother tells us she and her husband went to the spa on a date and her husband ended up locking himself in a room. >> this is heartbreaking. he took a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister for no reason. this family is broken because of this man. it is so hard on everybody today because of this man taking this innocent angel from us. he took an angel from earth who would do anything for anybody. >> reporter: a 30-year-old was shot in the head according to his wife, but he survived. his wife says he called her on the phone and said, i have been shot, please come. i need you. during the meeting president biden and vice president harris spoke about the raises and the phobia but stopped short of calling it a hate spree. amara walker, cnn, atlanta. >> take a listen. >> the he's the organizing manager joins me now from right here in atlanta. so you were there in the room. what struck you most? what are you left with? >> yes, absolutely. i am struck by the amount of power that api, elected officials in the state, and our community members hold, and the amount of support that we received from president biden and vice president kamala harris. they were so graceful. they cleared their scheduled and came here to talk about covid relief and completely pivoted to make space for this ee normal tragedy that our people have had to experience this week. >> i heard letters from the victims' families were read out loud. that must have been a pretty powerful moment. >> yeah. i think -- i honestly -- yes, it was a beautiful moment. it was powerful, and at the same time it was devastated. it was very much a clear indicator of the pain our community members have felt this week and the fear we've been experiencing. the entire room was crying. i was crying. it was truly a moment of recognizing the true -- the amount of heinous that went into this crime. >> you know, it's infuriating that it takes something like this, the loss of so many lives, the brutal nature of this, for the issue to go, you know, front and center. although it's been an issue, you know, with friends of mine, they say they've dealt with it for years, is there a sense that a dam in some ways is bursting? >> i don't know about that, you know? i think maybe to an extent. yeah, i think that's something i've been grappling with this week in particular. we've had a flood of donations, a flood of social media, things going viral, and it shouldn't have taken the lives of so many people for this to have happened. we've been doing this work for 25 years now and we've been working at the intersections of race and gender for so long, so we know this has been a problem even before covid. i'm going to apologize for my cat. you probably hear her in the background. we've been seeing a spike for a long time. >> my colleague amara walker is asian-american and has confronted incidents herself of, you know, open racism. do you feel that, you know, the door is opening for substantive change, or do you fear that a few weeks from now, it's forgotten? >> i hope it won't be forgotten. my hope is that this is a moment in time where we have failed our society and we can do better and be proactive. as a collective society and collective unit, we can respond to these crises proactively so we can be more preventive in the future. i hope people will remember our community members and continue to uplit api women's voices in the future. >> many republicans feel partly to blame for the rise in xenophobe ya. do you feel an impact on what has happened over the last years under that administration? >> i think calling the covid-19 virus the china virus is certainly not helpful. i would say the real issue here is white supremacy. it's been how communities of color are pitted against each other for so long. it's really the true nature and issue is white supremacy, how it's divided our community, marginalized people more. the reason we have to exist as an organization is, really, to take out white supremacy, and we have to create a space for people to exist. >> absolutely. what do you hope happens? what do you hope comes of the good that happened today and the evil that brought us here? >> absolutely. i hope to never feel this way again for any community members, any community, any group. this feeling of having to grapple with grief and simultaneously take action to protect our communities and put myself at risk, and at the same time, it's an enormous emotional labor that goes into this, and it's been a tremendous, tremendous effort on everyone and all of our community members as well. we've done such amazing work in such little time. it's been such a huge effort. i wouldn't wish this on anyone. i would say in terms of making our community a safer place, what we want to see is a task force addressing hate and violence, and this would lift the voices of those disproportionately impacted by the violence and hate we've seen in our community. >> well, i applaud your work. i applaud your courage in doing that work. but, you know, i'm infuriated that you have to do that work. but thank you for what you're doing, bianca jyotishi. thank you. >> thank you. on monday night cnn will bring you a special on monday night. amara walker, victor black well, ana cabrera, and anderson cooper will bring "afraid: fear in america's communities of color." coming up, a look at his first trip as president of the cdc. plus a combative confrontation between the u.s. and china that could set the tone for future relations. we'll take a look at what both sides will see with hardball diplomacy. 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the longest time, not just as it relates to the cdc, but science, science was viewed as sort of an appendage to anything else we were talking about. you're changing lives, but you're changing the psyche of the country. following the science as more data comes in, the cdc is updating its science on in-person learning and is considering cutting the social distancing in schools in half. nick watt has details. >> reporter: reopening american schools has gotten a bit easier. the cdc now says desks need only be three feet, not six feet apart. >> in classrooms with universal mask wearing. >> reporter: the cdc says one kid a row on a bus, kstaff shoud stay six feet away from kids and other staff. and they should stay six feet apart in hallways. according to the cdc, the science says. >> strong layered strategies can allow operation safely. >> reporter: the vaccine shot, 100 million in 100 days, done. >> weeks ahead of schedule. >> reporter: there's a massive mountain still to climb. 12% of the population is vaccinated. >> we would have to get more children, and i believe as we get high school students vaccinated in the fall, we'll be able to reach that. >> reporter: normality creeping closer. starting today, new york city restaurants can be half full inside. nationwide, 98ch of amc's theaters are open again, with restrictions, but open, while officials fear that more contagious variant first found in the uk. >> it likely accounts now for about 20% to 30% of the infections in this country, and that number is growing. >> reporter: average new case counts are rising in ten states, michigan up 45% in a week. >> we are going in the wrong direction with the key metrics that we are tracking for covid-19. >> reporter: pace counts holding in 11 states including texas. there's a jack in the box manager in lee city, texas, showing their customer the rules to help slow the spread. >> when officers arrived at the scene, they found the shift manager leaning against the counter with multiple stab wounds. >> reporter: stabbed, police say, for asking that customer to wear a mask. >> that was cnn nick watt reporting from los angeles. countries across europe are racing to get their people vaccinated over fears of a third wave of covid infections. as of thursday, they've administered more than 94 million doses, and this comes as a number of european nations are seeing a rise in new case numbers. many countries are resuming the use of the astrazeneca shot. the world health organization weighed in on friday indicating it doesn't indicate that the relatively few cases of blood clots reported after the vaccination are connected, but not every european country is necessarily onboard with that. for more, let's bring in phil black from essex, england. regulators say it's safe, but the controversy not going away. >> reporter: well, for some countries in europe, that's right, kim. despite those assurances, norway, denmark, finland all say for the moment they're maintaining their suspension on using the astrazeneca vaccine. these are countries that are not yet satisfied. they believe that those concerns about a possible link to symptoms including clotting and excessive bleeding, well, they believe the cases of those symptoms are unusual, and they're not satisfied, and they believe they need more information, more time to get to the bottom of this and be sure. these countries, all the others that also through the week suspended -- although now having reversed that suspension of the astrazeneca vaccine, have talked about the importance of safety, of being open and ensuring trust in their vaccine programs. it is a very cautious approach, but there is no doubt there is also concern that this abundance of caution could be more harmful in the long term initially through not expanding protection and ensuring that people are not at risk of developing severe covid-19. but in the longer term, too, concerns over reputational damage to this particular vaccine, vaccine programs in general. there is a concern that this can fuel hesitancy and uncertainty when there is already great concern about not enough people being ready to accept a vaccine when the broad view, the accepted view is the vaccines are, of course, the only way out of this pandemic. that's probably why within a space of just a few hours, you saw two european prime ministers rolling up their sleeves and getting the astrazeneca vaccine in front of cameras, both the french and the british as part of the push to overcome the turmoil surrounding this specific vaccine over the last weekend. >> and all of this is especially critical now as many countries in europe seem to be going through a third wave. >> reporter: yeah. so, france, a large part of it, are locking down today including paris. poland too. italy locked down this week. germany is talking about tightening restrictions in order to deal with exponential growth there. for the people of europe, this is all depressingly familiar and largely driven, we understand, because of the new more highly contagious variant first identified here in the uk. the concern, though, for people who are living through this is that there is no imminent end in sight. there's no substantial reason to hope because the european vaccine program is simply too slow at the moment. they don't have the supply to make a substantial difference in driving down transmission in the near future, kim. >> very worrying. thanks so much, cnn correspondent phil black. we appreciate it. and do join cnn for a special look at the human cost of covid. cnn correspondent miguel marquez profiles several people who have been affected by the pandemic, and their stories will resonate with people across the u.s. and around the world. see it tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern in the u.s. and 9:00 a.m. sunday in hong kong. the u.s. and china have ended two days of heated talks in alaska. it was the most contentious senior-level meeting yet between the global rivals, so 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"the new york times" broke the story on friday. >> reporter: 33-year-old alissa mcgrath is the first woman to come forward with allegations of inappropriate conduct by governor andrew cuomo who is actually still working in the cuomo administration. she said she would often be at times one of a pool who would be summoned to the governor's mansion on the week ends to work. at one time she noticed the governor was looking down her shirt and he commented on a necklace she was wearing. she said there were often comments he made toward her that made her unsettled. he would make remarks about her looks, tell her that she was beautiful, say, ciao bella. these are all instances that she say mounted to sexual harassment. she said it's important to note she had no sexual contact with the governor. in this, she said to "the new york times," he has a way of making you feel very comfortable around him, almost like you're his friend, but then you walk away from the conversation or encounter and you shake your head saying i can't believe i had this interaction with the governor. the governor did give a state to "the new york times." cnn is trying to get it. men and women have been greeted with a hug or a kiss on the forehead. yes, he has taken portraits with his arms around them. he has made clear he has never made inappropriate advances or inappropriately touched anyone. now, of course, mcgrath is just another woman who has similar complaints and the governor has said he's never meant to make someone feel uncomfortable and he denies any inappropriate contact or conduct with the allegations that are against him. brynn gingras, cnn, albany, new york. still to come, the white house says the decision to send millions of doses of covid vaccine to mexico has nothing to do with the worsening of the situation at america's southern border, but are they actually related? we'll discuss that next. stay with us. swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™ with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. tremfya® is also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tremfya®. emerge tremfyant™ janssen can help you explore cost support options. this is a tempur-pedic mattress. and its mission is to give you truly transformative sleep. so, no more tossing and turning... or trouble falling asleep. because only tempur-pedic uses proprietary tempur® material that continuously adapts and responds to your body, to relieve pressure... so you get deep, uninterrupted sleep. all night. every night. during the tempur-pedic luxe event, get your best sleep, and save $300 on our most premium mattresses. learn more at tempurpedic.com so jeff, you need all those screens streaming over your xfinity xfi... for your meeting? and save $300 on our most premium mattresses. uhh yes. and your lucky jersey? oh, yeah. lauren, a cooler? it's hot. it's march. and jay, what's with all your screens? just checking in with my team... of colleagues. so you're all streaming on every device in the house, what?!! that was a foul. it's march... ...and you're definitely not watching basketball. no, no. i'm definitely not watching basketball. right... ( horn blaring ) sending a million doses of its astrazeneca vaccine to its neighbors, to canada and mexico. the white house say they're essentially a loan and will be returned later this year. the agreement came up in recent talks between the two countries about the border situation. president biden has been seeking help from his mexican counterpart to curb the current surge of migrants, but the white house says the discussions about the vaccine and border security aren't directly related. tony is the director and joins us by skype. thanks for being with us. the white house says sending the vaccines to mexico and help stem the surge of migrants were, quote, unrelated but also overlapping. it's hard not to see a quid pro quo here. >> correct. the narrative in mexico -- and i was in chilejuarez yesterday -- i understand it was an offer to stem the flow of migrants from central america. that's how it's being seen in mexico. the other criticism is these are astrazeneca vaccines, which, of course, are being questioned in europe and the united states they're not quite approved yet for use, and mexico is in such dire need of additional vaccines, that they're willing to take that. >> interesting. is there as much skepticism there as we're seeing in europe? >> absolutely. i'm told about 40% of the individuals that might be eligible for the vaccines are refusing to be vaccinated. there are a lot of conspiracy theories around mexico. we don't often hear about them, but there's a lot of people who do not trust the government, do not trust the vaccines, and it has nothing to do with the anti-vaxxer movement. these are just people who don't trust the government. >> really. i guess you can see why because of the way the vaccine distribution has been rolled out. it's been both problematic and at times political. explain what's been happening. >> yes. the vaccine is being supplied by the servants of the nation, a group of tens of thousands of individuals that are paid in cash by the administration to do the work, the clan, the political work throughout the country. they're the ones that transport the vaccines along with the army. they're the ones that actually implement or put the vaccine in the arms of mexicans all over the country. they're the ones that actually are doing all the work, and they're not really medical personnel. and they often make mistakes like calling people on their phone from their own cellphones and people do not recognize the number, and, of course, mexico has high levels of extortion by telephone and threats by telephone, and there's all kinds of rumors that these might be organized criminals that are doing this, and people refuse to answer the phone, give them information, or sign up. this is creating a real serious problem in mexico. >> and some people are, you know, accusing people of getting preferential treatment, for instance? >> yes. obviously all these young people that work for him directly, his own personal employees, are being vaccinated, and some of their families are being vaccinated. they're being put ahead of the line even though officially mexico is on the 60-plus stage of the vaccination process. many younger people, of course, are getting vaccines because these servants of the nation simply put them ahead of the line. >> and then on the u.s. side of the equation, the surge at the border, republicans and even many migrants themselves say the biden administration's more welcoming posture is basically inviting the migrants to come. the timing and the size of the surge suggest it can't be coincidence, but some people are arguing the numbers don't exactly bear that out. where do you stand? >> well, obviously we're looking at higher numbers than we saw in 2020, but only slightly higher than we saw in 2019. the problem of unaccompanied minors and family units coming to the u.s./mexico border is something that goes back to 2014. it goes up and down regardless of the policy. obama was not as strict and draconian as trump. trump's policies were, of course, very draconian, and now biden is a little more accepting. the numbers go up in the spring and summer and back down in the fall and winter and obey root causes and have nothing to do with policy. this is just one more surge. >> interesting. we'll see how that bears out. president biden is undoing many of those trump policies that you spoke of on dealing with the migrants, but one thing that hasn't changed is the reliance on mexico to do a lot of the heavy lifting, and the conundrum is the biden administration is signaling it has a friendly, more humane policy toward the migrant ts, but wants mexico to get tougher. so does that put mexico in a tougher position? how does mexico navigate this? >> well, i think mexico is going to need help from the united states for the vaccination to end the pandemic in mexico and, of course, to open the border depends quite a bit economically from the united states. so the administration last month when they met virtually, mr. biden and he, asked washington for some help with the vooaccin, and, of course, they said, no, americans are first, but now they've offered some in exchange for mexico helping work with the migrants. i think mexico will have no choice to continue doing the work it was doing under trump. >> all right. listen. i really appreciate you talking to us today, tony payan, thank you so much. >> thank you. a volcanic system in iceland has suddenly erupted for the first time in hundreds of years whchl enwe come back, our meteorologist has the latest. stay with us. because a good night's rest is where muscles recover, and our minds are restored. the new sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing. and it helps keep you asleep by sensing your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. perfect for those relaxing weekends. proven quality sleep, is life-changing sleep. only from sleep number. rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the same medications as the vet, but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. iceland. people are warned to stay indoors, close windows, and stay far away. it's covering the size of 200 football fields. the iceland meteorological office says the eruption follows weeks of seismic activity. thousands of earthquakes have jolted the area this past month. joining me to talk about it is meteorologist derek van dam. incredible pictures there, but, of course, when iceland erupts, europe trembles because, of course, what happened in 2010. are we headed for a sequel here? >> yes. so many people, our worldwide viewers remember the travel, disruption, and chaos that ensued following that 2010 eruption. volcanologists say, no, this is not going to be a similar type of eruption and i'll show you why. this is part of the southern volcanic system in the southwestern portions of iceland. there's no central volcano here like in 2010 where a crater blew its top, spewed ash around the area and halted travel in europe for weeks. that's the big difference. here you can see some of the molten java what i would consider gently spewing from the fissure in the earth. it allows for the magma chamber to erupt through the earth's surface. that's the crack in the earth allowing for what -- precursor by earthquakes allowing the magma to actually make its way through and also allow the lava to spew through the earth. that's the difference between the two types of eruptions we're seeing right now, the eruption southwest of the capital of iceland where we're discussing right now, part of a larger volcanic system, but no real singler volcano within this particular area. what's interesting is this is an active seismic area, in fact, the third most active seismic area in the atlanta. two tectonic plates meet. you have the you ray shan and north american plates. they're separating 60 million meters a year. that's how long your nails you. that's enough. they measure these and look out for swarms of earthquakes, multiples of earthquakes in a period of time. this time this particular volcano decided to spew lava. kim? >> derek van dam dropping science. fascinating stuff. thanks so much for breaking that down. appreciate it. >> pleasure. the covid delayed 2020 olympics are set to begin in four months in tokyo. there are uncertainties, and the wait has taken a mental toll on athletes. cnn has a story of one olympic fencer and his struggles. >> reporter: he took up a job to deliver uber eats. his training stopped for several months after tokyo announced the postponement of the olympics. he's since resumed practice, but the physical and mental challenges remain. >> it's been very difficult. after all, the olympics are like god, an absolute existence for athletes. it's like running a full marathon for four years. adding another year is like we have to keep on running before reaching the goal. >> reporter: with the olympic games just months away, it's still unclear how japan plans to hold the games safely. while the japanese government vows the games will go ahead, a poll in january by a public broadcaster nhk say 70% of people think the games should be canceled or postponed. >> i think it's quite risky to hold the olympics in japan at this stage, but i think everyone thinks safety is the first and there are athletes who want to compete in the olympics no matter what. >> reporter: at stake are tens of billions of dollars and japan's pride. >> we've started to see more and more olympic athletes and sparring olympic athletes coming through our support system and having to put yourself through not only the level of training that these athletes are working at six, seven days a week, but also to stay as mentally hungry and driven and trying to reach a goal that isn't yet actually finalized and fixed at a set date and time is really, really tough, and eventually that will take its toll on the mental health of these olympians. >> reporter: but this sports climber was happy to have an extra year of program it is. she was planning to retire after the tokyo 2020 games when sports climbing was supposed to make its olympic debut. she's pushed back her retirement by one year in order to make the olympics the last competition of her career. how are you feeling that your first and last oliympics may bea strange one with covid restrictions? >> translator: well, i feel very sad, she told me. i wanted to be in the olympics because i wanted to show my best performance in front of my family and supporter, but this will not be in the form that i have been imagining, she said. olympic organizers have yet to decide if international fans or any fans at all will be allowed to attend. his wife marie says she has never seen him fence in person. >> physically i've never been able to be at his matches or see his matches yet, so i just watch on youtube, like his past olympic match, for example. >> so you're hoping to go to the olympics then? >> yes. i hope to chair in person hopefully. >> reporter: for now all he can do is train and wait. selena wang, cnn, tokyo. archaeologists have discovering a prehistoric predator that looks a little like it could be from a sharknado movie. so this is an artist's rendering of an eagle shark. they look look wings but they're fins six feet across. it was discovered in a fossil in mexico. there's that fossil there. the eagle shark was thought to live 19 million years ago. archaeologists say it was probably a gentle giant. it had a large mouth and tiny teeth which indicates it ate plankton, which is good news. that wraps up this hour. i'm kim bruener. i'll be back in just a moment. stay with us. you said you'd never do a lot of things. but you never knew all the things a dog could do for you. and with resolve you never have to worry about the mess. love the love, resolve the mess. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? 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